[Gretl-devel] Re: various contributed packages with messed-up help text formatting
Am 26.10.2024 um 01:09 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
On Sat, 26 Oct 2024, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> Thanks, Allin, it's looking good on the few examples I've checked.
> Can you enumerate your list of the 10 packages? Maybe we should write
> to the authors to avoid confusion.
OK, here are the 10 packages:
gregory_hansen (Artur)
CvDataSplitter (Artur)
VARrec (Artur)
gqtest (Oleh)
a_eff (Oleh)
tobit_mfx (Oleh)
GlobalFactors (Ioannis)
ModRS_test (Daniel V-S)
VSG_test (Daniel V-S)
summary_xy (Yi-Nung)
These packages have two things in common: (a) their help text contains
the '#' character, which is suggestive of markdown, but (b) they
predate gretl 2023b (2023-07-21), which was the first gretl release to
support use of markdown -- so in fact gretl should have disregarded
the presence of '#'.
Thanks, I sent a message to the relevant authors of this list.
One follow-up question about your commit [6fa6d4],
https://sourceforge.net/p/gretl/git/ci/6fa6d46b63f5f1ad61fd9235da16528513...
In a (very informative!) comment there you write "we assume that
packages with an earlier [than gretl 2023b] last-modified date can't be
using [markdown]". But some packages might have already exploited the
functionality before the official release of 2023b, so I wonder if that
heuristic is too strict. (Don't know whether any packages fall into that
category, however.)
cheers
sven